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I Hate Bowling

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Lane 1 Coverstocks
« on: June 23, 2007, 06:02:24 AM »
Lane 1 Bowlers, can you tell me something?
If Lane 1 has different companies "pouring" there coverstocks does that make a difference?  Are Lane 1 coverstocks Lane 1 coverstocks?  Or are they the coverstock of the company pouring them?

My wife has a Cobalt Bomb pearl that is about 1 1/2 years old.  Does this mean it has a Brunswick covestock?  I recently bought a G-Force.  Does this mean it has a Columbia 300 coverstock?
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2007, 02:18:54 PM »
In general, if Brunswick "pours" your ball, you will use the same supplier as they do, Bayer, and you MAY use the same resin as they use in one of their coverstocks. Then again, you may not.

If you use Columbia300 to manufacture your balls (The G-Force series and the Uranium HRG were manufactured for Lane#1 by Columbia300.) then you will use Columbia's resin supplier, BASF. You may or may not choose to use the same exact resin forumla as Columbia did in one of their balls OR yo umay choose some other resin formula. It depends on what you want the ball to do and what core you have chosen.

Even Track and Columbia did NOT use the exact same BASF resin formula for every ball they made. They definitely used different cores and both were owned by the same company.

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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2007, 02:23:26 PM »
Lane #1 will now be utilizing BASF resins for their coverstocks just as Columbia 300, Track and AMF used to do before Ebonite bought out C300.

The first 2 balls that C300 poured for Lane #1 would have been the Uranium HRG and the Red XXXL.

Any balls produced before those two would have been poured by Brunswick who utilizes Bayer resins. So yes, the Cobalt Bomb is a "Brunswick" coverstock.  The difference in engraving styles is pretty evident between C300 and Big B as well.
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2007, 02:55:58 PM »
Thanks guys.
So if I buy my wife a new Cobalt Bomb it'll be with a Columbia 300 coverstock?
Different ball basically, than her older Cobalt.
Right?
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2007, 03:02:40 PM »
Even if it is new...a Cobalt Bomb would be a Brunswick cover.
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2007, 03:15:56 PM »
Yeah, any NIB Cobalts would be leftover Brunswick-poured balls.
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2007, 04:28:47 PM »
quote:
Thanks guys.
So if I buy my wife a new Cobalt Bomb it'll be with a Columbia 300 coverstock?
Different ball basically, than her older Cobalt.
Right?


No new ones will be made as far as we know. Any new Cobalts will be ones that had been made by Brunswick. Any new designs will be called somehtign else because Cobalts are made with Brunswick/Bayer resins, not Columbia/BASF resins. That would make it a different ball that would have be approved by the USBC and by the PBA all over again.
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2007, 04:36:46 PM »
Many of the Lane 1 balls were plain old PK18.  Some were Activator, some were Activator/PK18 mixes, and the most recent ones had additional additives as well.  The Gold Nugget was a particle pearl PK17.

But for a given ball (say, the Cobalt Bomb), they all have the same cover.  No Cobalts were made by C300, no G-Forces were made by Brunswick.

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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2007, 05:27:06 PM »
Thanks everybody.

My wife loves her Cobalt Bomb and we'll be buying another one just for whenever hers wears out.

As a side-note, I'm amazed at the durability of the Cobalt.  She never cleans it or revives it; she's had it for 1.5 years and it still reacts the same and hits like a ton of bricks.  The G-Force on the other hand has to be constantly maintained as it picks up everything off the lanes.  After only three games it is so full of dirt the reaction suffers a little.

Thanks again.
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2007, 05:49:39 PM »
quote:
Thanks everybody.

My wife loves her Cobalt Bomb and we'll be buying another one just for whenever hers wears out.

As a side-note, I'm amazed at the durability of the Cobalt.  She never cleans it or revives it; she's had it for 1.5 years and it still reacts the same and hits like a ton of bricks.  The G-Force on the other hand has to be constantly maintained as it picks up everything off the lanes.  After only three games it is so full of dirt the reaction suffers a little.

Thanks again.


That isn't what I'd call durability.  Solid coverstocks, like the BASF based resin found on the G-Force, are much more porous than any pearl reactive coverstock out there.  With that quality they are going to suck up more crud no matter who makes the resin.
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2007, 11:18:28 PM »
the angular one cover will get it in oil absorbtion.
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Re: Lane 1 Coverstocks
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2007, 06:26:09 AM »
quote:
Thanks everybody.

My wife loves her Cobalt Bomb and we'll be buying another one just for whenever hers wears out.

As a side-note, I'm amazed at the durability of the Cobalt.  She never cleans it or revives it; she's had it for 1.5 years and it still reacts the same and hits like a ton of bricks.  The G-Force on the other hand has to be constantly maintained as it picks up everything off the lanes.  After only three games it is so full of dirt the reaction suffers a little.

Thanks again.


Well, the Cobalts are all polished and the G-Force is dull because it's intended for oily lanes. You do have to CLEAN your balls, before putting them away!

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That will happen to any ball, no matter who manufactures it.
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